Four Shillings Short | Celtic, Folk & World Music | 371 O' Connor St

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Sunday, July 13, 2025

3:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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07/13/2025 03:30 PM 07/13/2025 06:00 PM America/Boise Four Shillings Short | Celtic, Folk & World Music Rooted in Celtic and American folk, inspired by Indian Raga and Ethnic idioms; a diverse and inventive international Traditional Music Experience is waiting for you in our hidden garden. The husband/wife duo of Aodh Óg (pronounced, ayog) O’Tuama from Cork, Ireland and Christy Martin from California have been performing together since 1995. They tour in the US and Ireland, are independent folk-artists with 12 recordings, perform 150 concerts a year and live—as did the troubadours of old—traveling from town to town performing at music festivals, theaters & performing arts centers, folk & historic societies, libraries, museums, schools, and private listening venues such as you will enjo... Details & Tickets: https://www.upcomingevents.com/san-jose/events/371-o-connor-st/four-shillings-short-celtic-folk-world-music-443447?ref=uceaddevent 371 O' Connor St, 371 O' Connor Street, Menlo Park, CA, 94025

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Rooted in Celtic and American folk, inspired by Indian Raga and Ethnic idioms; a diverse and inventive international Traditional Music Experience is waiting for you in our hidden garden. The husband/wife duo of Aodh Óg (pronounced, ayog) O’Tuama from Cork, Ireland and Christy Martin from California have been performing together since 1995. They tour in the US and Ireland, are independent folk-artists with 12 recordings, perform 150 concerts a year and live—as did the troubadours of old—traveling from town to town performing at music festivals, theaters & performing arts centers, folk & historic societies, libraries, museums, schools, and private listening venues such as you will enjoy at Dala's Nest House Concerts. Aodh Óg studied Medieval and Renaissance music in college and received a music fellowship to study at Stanford University in 1984; he played in the group Drivelling Druids before forming Four Shillings Short; he brings vocals, tin whistles, doumbeck, spoons, gemshorn, bowed psaltery, recorders, crumhorn, and Native American flutes. Christy was born into a musical family and complements Aodh Óg with vocals, hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, banjo, North Indian sitar, guitar, charango, bowed psaltery, ukulele, and bodhran; she was formerly in a band called Your Mother Should Know. Our stage will be chockablock with instruments! At our hidden garden concerts, all guests enjoy seating, shade umbrellas, light refreshments, a gender-neutral restroom, easy free street parking and gratitude!!! BYOB/picnic? Cool! $25 per person, kids under 12 free (we have bubbles and chalk). 100% of guest seat donations go to the musicians. Always. Seating available to capacity at DalasNestHouseConcerts.com or to RSVP for unsecured seats (possibly waitlisted) email Aimée as [email protected] We host solely to support community through music.

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